 I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...  The Williams Quarterly - Seite 3331857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 Seiten
...DARKNESS. (BYRON.) I had a drea,m | which was not all' a dream — j The bright sun was extinguish'd ; I and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, | Rayless, and pathrless ; | and the icy earth | Swung blind and black'ning in the moonless airv. J Morn came, and... | |
 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 412 Seiten
...death. The poet's dream would become a frightful and horrid reality : — " I had a dream, which was not all a dream, The bright sun was extinguished,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day! And men forgot their passions in the dread Of... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...— born and dying With the blest tone that made me ! ii DARKNESS. I had a dream, which was not ail a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 Seiten
...monotone may be further exemplified in the reading of some portions of the following extracts : — 44. " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." 45. " Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
 | 1854 - 44 Seiten
...statement belongs to the creative Imagination also. Take the following from Byron's Dream of " Darkness :" "The bright sun was extinguished and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." ******* " The world was void, " The populous and the powerful were a lump, Sensonless, herbless, treeless,... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 Seiten
...into my brain * Borror : " I had a dream which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguish'd ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;" — Amazement: "What may this mean, That thou dead corse, again, 5n complete steel, Revisit'st thus... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 Seiten
...me. March, 1815. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of... | |
 | 1854 - 386 Seiten
...sun wan extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, '.' J* I' • I • " . Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless Air." * * * » .»•«.*• " The world was void, "The populous and the powerful were a lump,. Seasonless,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 Seiten
...horrors. Direness. familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. 8. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. $. Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a S0k let can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 Seiten
...* Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. 8. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. 4. Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
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